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- Title
Practice does not make perfect in a modified sustained attention to response task.
- Authors
Head, James; Helton, William
- Abstract
In the current investigation, we examined the changes in performance, task-related thoughts (TRT), and task-unrelated thoughts (TUT) over four sessions of a modified sustained attention to response task (SART). Eighteen participants completed a clockwise manual selection SART (Head and Helton in Conscious Cogn 22:913-919, ) and a conscious thought questionnaire once a week for four weeks. Response times and errors of commission oscillated over sessions in line with a motor strategy interpretation of the SART. As participants became faster in the task, they made more commission errors. The conscious thought questionnaire failed to show a relationship between errors of commission and TRT and TUT on the SART at either a between-subject or within-subject level of analysis. Commission errors in the SART may be better measures of executive motor control and response strategy than perceptual decoupling.
- Subjects
TASK performance; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION time; ERRORS; ATTENTION; VIGILANCE (Psychology); ACCURACY
- Publication
Experimental Brain Research, 2014, Vol 232, Issue 2, p565
- ISSN
0014-4819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00221-013-3765-0